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Today, 12:09 AM

Grouchy replied to a poll Birds of Passage (Ciro Guerra) in 2018 Releases

Man, Ciro Guerra is the director to watch right now. I haven't seen The Wind Journeys (and I'm not really a fan of vallenato, having travelled in...

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Today, 12:02 AM

Grouchy started a poll Birds of Passage (Ciro Guerra) in 2018 Releases

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Yesterday, 11:59 PM

Grouchy replied to a poll A Twelve-Year Night (Álvaro Brechner) in 2018 Releases

This is certainly a solid movie about a subject that deserves such a work - the 12 years Pepe Mujica, Huidobro and Rosencof, members of the Tupamaro...

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Yesterday, 09:28 PM

Grouchy replied to a poll Godzilla: King of the Monsters (Michael Dougherty) in 2019 Releases

I get that they did a reverent job of translating classic kaiju tropes to this American version but, nerd credit notwithstanding, the movie is...

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06-14-2019, 05:04 PM

Grouchy replied to a thread Celeb (and Celeb SO's) Obit Thread in The Kitchen Sink

Hahah for a second there I thought you thought he'd just died.

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06-14-2019, 12:45 PM

Grouchy started a poll A Twelve-Year Night (Álvaro Brechner) in 2018 Releases

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06-14-2019, 01:04 AM

Grouchy replied to a thread Black Mirror in General TV Discussion

This episode just completely fell apart for me because of this. The second one is definitively the best although it doesn't explore a lot of new...

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06-10-2019, 12:37 PM

Grouchy replied to a poll The Wild Pear Tree (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) in 2018 Releases

Definitively not my type of film but there's something quite gifted about the way Nuri extends scenes far beyod their usual running time, making a...

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06-10-2019, 12:31 PM

Grouchy started a poll The Wild Pear Tree (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) in 2018 Releases

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06-10-2019, 12:29 PM

Grouchy replied to a thread Celeb (and Celeb SO's) Obit Thread in The Kitchen Sink

André Matos, legendary Angra singer.

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06-08-2019, 06:39 PM

Grouchy replied to a poll Mirage (Oriol Paulo) in 2018 Releases

I just wanted to start by saying that I got the director's name wrong at first from memory and wrote Olio Rabal, which is a perfectly valid fantasy...

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06-08-2019, 06:30 PM

Grouchy started a poll Mirage (Oriol Paulo) in 2018 Releases

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06-08-2019, 06:25 PM

Grouchy replied to a poll The House with a Clock in its Walls (Eli Roth) in 2018 Releases

I went back and forth on the Nay and the Yay for this one because it's really not a good movie for imprecise reasons. It's worth watching for the...

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06-08-2019, 06:17 PM

Grouchy started a poll The House with a Clock in its Walls (Eli Roth) in 2018 Releases

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06-08-2019, 06:12 PM

Grouchy replied to a poll Dragon Ball Super: Broly (Tatsuya Nagamine) in 2018 Releases

By now I feel like there's no need to explain a Dragon Ball movie. Either you roll with it or you don't. I was never a huge Dragon Ball fan but...

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06-08-2019, 06:10 PM

Grouchy started a poll Dragon Ball Super: Broly (Tatsuya Nagamine) in 2018 Releases

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06-08-2019, 06:08 PM

Grouchy replied to a poll The Last Man (Rodrigo H. Vila) in 2018 Releases

I watched this mystifingly boring sci-fi flick because the elder brother of one of my closest high school friends was very involved with the...

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06-08-2019, 06:03 PM

Grouchy started a poll The Last Man (Rodrigo H. Vila) in 2018 Releases

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06-08-2019, 12:54 PM

Grouchy replied to a thread Celeb (and Celeb SO's) Obit Thread in The Kitchen Sink

Narciso "Chicho" Ibáñez Serrador (1935-2019), son of the classic actor, writer and director Narciso Ibáñez Menta, the Argentinian Vincent Price by...

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06-06-2019, 02:04 PM

Grouchy replied to a thread The Netflix Thread in General Film Discussion

The comic is great, though. I've seen the show - it's a more standard version of the comic's madness.

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06-04-2019, 12:53 PM

Grouchy replied to a thread The Upcoming Film Discussion Thread? in Upcoming Film Emporium

His berating of the guy is pretty funny, though. The "da da da", the bit Duke posted... I also find it easy to defend him because he never says...

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06-04-2019, 12:48 PM

Grouchy replied to a thread Le Mans '66 (Mangold), aka Ford v Ferrari in Upcoming Film Emporium

I think it's a song that ALWAYS work because it's a fucking masterpiece but it's hard not to think of Scorsese when you hear it set to images.

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06-04-2019, 12:43 PM

Grouchy replied to a thread 28 Film Discussion Threads Later in General Film Discussion

Why watch movies?

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06-04-2019, 01:10 AM

Grouchy replied to a thread The Upcoming Film Discussion Thread? in Upcoming Film Emporium

Hahah yeah, me too. I mean, he went bananas but you can't be that unprofessional on a movie set and waste everybody's time.

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06-03-2019, 05:20 PM

Grouchy replied to a poll American Animals (Bart Layton) in 2018 Releases

I'm with Puft here. The movie's gimmick was handsomely executed, but thematically, it was really thin. It ran out of interesting things to say about...

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06-01-2019, 07:22 PM

Grouchy replied to a thread The News Thread in The Kitchen Sink

Hah, is he NickGlass? I met the guy personally, we went to see Good Night and Good Luck together! Tokyo Tribe is awesome, by the way.

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05-31-2019, 06:31 PM

Grouchy replied to a thread Rambo V: Last Blood (Adrian Grunberg) in Upcoming Film Emporium

Yeah, I was wondering about those "secrets" too.

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